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Jewish Group to Sue New York for Banning Guns in Houses of Worship
Daily Signal ^ | September 8, 2022 | Justine Brooke Murray

Posted on 09/10/2022 5:50:31 AM PDT by DoodleBob

The New York State Jewish Gun Club plans to sue New York for banning firearms in places of worship, calling it “unconstitutional” in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Tzvi Waldman, the founder of the New York State Jewish Gun Club, is working with a civil rights attorney to challenge a provision of New York’s new Concealed Carry Improvement Act, prohibiting congregants from carrying guns inside places of worship among other locations it deems “sensitive.”

He told the Daily Caller News Foundation he is “very confident” the law will “definitely” be overturned, calling it “unconstitutional on so many levels.”

“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” he told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The law, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, also bans guns from most public and private businesses and requires that applicants for a concealed carry permit provide their social media history to verify their “character and conduct” is suitable enough to own a gun.

It was passed in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in New York Firearms Association v. Bruen, striking down the state’s requirement that concealed carry applicants must “demonstrate proper cause.”

Keeping New Yorkers safe is my top priority.

Starting tomorrow, concealed weapons will no longer be permitted on subways, in bars, and the following sensitive locations. pic.twitter.com/RKExUOBlrT

— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) August 31, 2022

“New York is in the midst of a massive crime wave, we have seen in particular a sudden rise in violent hate crimes against Orthodox Jews,” Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans Club, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“The average Orthodox Jew spends up to 20 hours a week in shul [synagogue]. So for us, not being able to be protected in shul means more than the average person who goes to church once a week,” Waldman told the Bronx’s News 12.

Hate crimes committed against Jews make up more than half of all religion-based hate crimes in the U.S., FBI statistics show. New York has witnessed a more than 300% increase in antisemitic hate crimes in the first three months of 2022 compared with last year.

A stabbing attack at the home of a rabbi in Monsey killed one and injured four others in 2019, News 12 noted.

But the Department of Criminal Justice Services insisted houses of worship in New York “have always been able to work with law enforcement, security guards and other certified armed personnel to keep their communities safe, and under the new concealed carry law, that will continue to be the case,” according to News 12.

“Our organization does not take an official position on the Second Amendment, but I can tell you the reality on the ground. Almost every orthodox synagogue in Baltimore has an armed congregate,” Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the managing director for the Coalition of Jewish Values, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “People do not feel like calling the police or having an armed security guard who may be five blocks away is enough.”

“All law-abiding citizens should be free to legally carry in their houses of worship as a real deterrent against any who would seek to cause them harm. Hochul’s attempts to deny this basic and fundamental right of self-defense to a heavily targeted group just shows a level of callousness not thought possible in American politics,” Wax told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Hochul did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; defundthepolice; ericadams; newyork; newyorkcity; nra; secondamendment
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1 posted on 09/10/2022 5:50:31 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

GOOD!


2 posted on 09/10/2022 5:53:23 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

A state has no jurisdiction with regard to what goes on inside a church. Just do it.


3 posted on 09/10/2022 6:05:43 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: DoodleBob
It can't be a surprise that at least some Jews feel uneasy...and unsafe...in synagogues.
4 posted on 09/10/2022 6:06:17 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: DoodleBob

If any group knows the necessity of self defense, it’s the Jews.


5 posted on 09/10/2022 6:06:56 AM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: DoodleBob

Actually...looking at the larger picture...New York State legislators,I’ll wager,had the dozens of laws they’ve very recently enacted already written in anticipation of SCOTUS overturning their blatently unconstitutional law.


6 posted on 09/10/2022 6:09:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: DoodleBob; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

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This Ping List is for all things pertaining to infringes upon or victories for the 2nd Amendment.

FReepmail me if you want to be added to or deleted from the list.

More 2nd Amendment related articles on FR's Bang List.

7 posted on 09/10/2022 6:10:37 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: DoodleBob

This will win.
The Little Hats have power in NYS.

AND

Failed Lawyer and Buffalo Ghetto Grifter Hochul has no legitimate authority to restrict those rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.
US Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land.

on many things, we agree


8 posted on 09/10/2022 6:12:19 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Macoozie

“The little hats”?


9 posted on 09/10/2022 6:17:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: GingisK

It is interesting how dumb pols believe criminals are going to follow their regulations.


10 posted on 09/10/2022 6:23:11 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: BenLurkin

Probably a reference to yarmulkes.


11 posted on 09/10/2022 6:24:39 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

Are you okay with that?


12 posted on 09/10/2022 6:27:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

It was in poor taste, but I was simply making an observation.


13 posted on 09/10/2022 6:30:48 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Spok

...and very soon those who back Trump.


14 posted on 09/10/2022 6:31:06 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Gay State Conservative; metmom; GrandJediMasterYoda; Alberta's Child
I used to live in NJ, near the NYS border. There was a stabbing at a Rabbi's home in Monsey in 2019 where one person ultimately died. There was a shooting in an orthodox market in Jersey City where three people were killed. And while we are at it, pre-pandemic there was a measles outbreak in NY where De Blasio vilified that community for not vaxxing.

We all have a natural right to be armed. Anyone who's religious in NYS has every right to be more amped up about it. Anyone who's Jewish has been targeted and should be issued a sidearm.

15 posted on 09/10/2022 6:33:07 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: BenLurkin

Well I’m not. It seems demeaning, maybe it was an attempt to be cute but it missed. I despise the PC BS but it seems disrespectful to our Jewish friends.


16 posted on 09/10/2022 6:35:11 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: BenLurkin

Well I’m not. It seems demeaning, maybe it was an attempt to be cute but it missed. I despise the PC BS but it seems disrespectful to our Jewish friends.


17 posted on 09/10/2022 6:35:12 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: DoodleBob
Too Light.

This is more like it.

When government resists the 2nd amendment and SCOTUS, UP THE ANTE!


18 posted on 09/10/2022 6:35:52 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: gibsonguy
I despise the PC BS but it seems disrespectful to our Jewish friends.

Ya can't have it both ways.
19 posted on 09/10/2022 6:40:20 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: DoodleBob

It is almost like they want to see how much of the Bill of Rights they can violate with one law.

1st Amendment: Government interference with the practice of religion, check.

2nd Amendment: Government restriction of firearm possession in a domain in which they have no jurisdiction to do so, check.

What’s next? The quartering of soldiers in synagogues?


20 posted on 09/10/2022 6:56:02 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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